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Tread Carefully for Threatened Shorebirds

Beachgoers to Tasmania’s east coast are being urged to stay on wet sand whenever beach-walking to help protect the shoreline nests and...

Stoic Tactics to Beat Procrastination

Procrastinating “is the biggest waste of life,” the Stoic philosopher Seneca wrote. “It snatches away each day…and denies us the present by...

Magnificent Blackwood

After the long COVID-induced lockdowns of 2021, I’m more excited than usual for a joyous gathering at Christmas, where four generations of...

Expert Comment on New Feasibility Report on Carbon ‘Geoengineering’

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has published a new report on the topic of Geoengineering, the deliberate manipulation of the global Earth environment in...

TLC Establishes Eagle Rock Reserve on West Coast

Newsletter item – Tasmanian Land Conservancy, 8 December 2021 A new reserve on the west coast: Eagle Rock The Tasmanian Land Conservancy...

State & Territory Inaction on SMA Testing ‘Fuels Lifetime of Heartache’

Media release – SMA Australia, 2 December 2021 Continued state and territory inaction on SMA testing will fuel a lifetime of heartache...

Indigenous Afterlives in Britain

Readers are advised this article contains content relating to violent colonial practices and deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, which some...

Is Meat Really That Bad?

Climate Change Biggest Danger to Birds on Edge of Extinction

Up to 216 Australian birds are now threatened – compared with 195 a decade ago – and climate change is now the...

Proven – Australia’s Black Summer of Fire was Not Normal

The Black Summer forest fires of 2019–2020 burned more than 24 million hectares, directly causing 33 deaths and almost 450 more from...